Gov’t to support 8 TF-ELCAC focused barangays in E. Samar town

From the Philippine Information Agency (Oct 8, 2020): Gov’t to support 8 TF-ELCAC focused barangays in E. Samar town (By Ninfa Barcena-Quirante)

BORONGAN CITY, Oct. 8 (PIA) -- The national government is soon providing interventions and programs to eight Task Force - End Local Communist Armed Conflict (TF-ELCAC) focused barangays of Dolores town.

With Dolores 41 barangays, eight of them are listed under the TF ELCAC and are slated for several government interventions.

On October 7, Dolores town Mayor Shonny Niño Carpeso was visibly thankful for the promised assistance. Representatives from the different national government agencies met to listen to the Barangay Development Plans of the eight concerned barangays.

Carpeso though enumerated some infrastructure projects that the LGU extended to the different barangays.

"We just have so much budget from the IRA that we cannot possibly give them all their needs, but through the TF-ELCAC, these barangays will be assured of the needed support from the national government," said Carpeso.

We have provided them infrastructure like concrete roads, waiting shed, water system, street lights and in the livelihood part, we have given them swine dispersal project, Carpeso added.

When asked how many kilometers more of access road the town needed, Carpeso said they need some 45 kilometers more to connect the distant sitios and barangays.

It is only through the Dolores River that the eight barangays can be reached.

These trips require them to sail for three to four hours just to reach the poblacion to deliver their goods or to obtain some services, the mayor said.

Jonathan Capacite, punong barangay of Sta. Cruz said that the only local government structure they have is their barangay hall. "This even needs repair," he said.

The barangay hall, he said serves as day care center, health center, evacuation center all rolled into one. Capacite though is proud that the DILG has given them a water system under the Salintubig project, but he still needs electricity connections for his three distant sitios.

Aside from Brgy. Sta Cruz, Dolores barangays included in the eight TF barangays are Aroganga, Buenavista, Caglao-an, Denigpi-an, Rizal, San Isidro and San Roque.

Meanwhile, Mayor Carpeso is hopeful that the government interventions to be poured to these eight barangays will make them appreciate the government better. (nbq/PIA 8 E. Samar)

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